>>A client wants me to add a facility for his application to exchange data with a website. The website's SDK calls for POSTs and returns JSON. Looks like either Chilkat or wwIPStuff will give me what I need for the communication, so looking for opinions. (If I go with Chilkat, I'll probably use Bill Anderson's new VFPX wrapper class for it.)
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>>Additional info: though we haven't implemented these yet, down the road, the client probably wants to add texting capability to the application and to replace the existing email capability with something more modern.
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>Seconding Victor on importance of security related stuff.
>I know Rick has implemented some security / certificate needing stuff by now -
>years ago I had to implement FTPS and SFTP to big iron instances and
>wwIPStuff back then could not do that.
>Went with a COM based solution - worked, even going "forward" to RPC calls,
>but the certificate stuff created most of maintainance hassles later.
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>Weigh coverage of this area plus availability of author help a lot when comparing.

Thanks. As I said to Victor, FTP isn't relevant here. Need to POST and get responses for now. Later may need to be able to send email and to send texts.

Tamar